Visual Composer by WPBakery is one of the most popular premium page builder for WordPress. No wonder that I receive many requests on how to use ads, and especially AdSense ad units, directly within the Visual Composer interface.
Until now, the simple solution was to use a shortcode from an ad, group, or placement created with Advanced Ads and put it into the text element provided by Visual Composer. However, finding it again among other text elements was a challenge to some users.
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Advanced Ads and Visual Composer
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Visual Composer by WPBakery is a premium page builder for WordPress. Instead of writing all your texts and include shortcodes in the Classic WordPress editor, Visual Composer replaces that text area with an interface consisting of widget-like elements. You can individually configure those elements and build detailed pages with various features. Also, you can even edit pages in the frontend and see live how they change.
Visual Composer Ads add-on
With the increasing demand, I build an add-on to integrate Advanced Ads and Visual Composer. You can download it for free from wordpress.org.
Once installed and activated, the add-on you should find three new Visual Composer elements in the editor:
- Advanced Ads – Ad
- Advanced Ads – Group
- Advanced Ads – Placement
There is also a new tab called Ads with these elements.
Where to find the ID?
When you add and open one of the widgets, you will find an input field for an id of the ad element.
Ad ID
Open the ad edit screen and stop the Wizard, if active. You should now see the Ad ID below the ad title.
Group ID
The Group ID is listed in the details column of the ad group list.
Placement ID
Create a Manual placement. Open the list of placements and click on show usage below the placement’s name. Extract the ID from the id attribute in the shortcode field.
In the screenshot below, the placement ID is theme-header.
